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amount of $363.98.
The pharmacist had contacted the
assistant office manager at the physician’s
office and was told that the MRI’s provided
by “both patients” were invalid, consequent-
ly the prescriptions they had obtained had
been obtained in a fraudulent manner. Both
MRI’s were identical with the exception
of the personal information, and the physi-
cian’s office requested that law enforcement
be notified.
The detective contacted the di-
agnostic imaging company in Belleview,
Florida and learned that the two MRI’s were
fraudulent, and neither of the patients had
ever been treated in the facility.
Dethlefs told the detective that the
MRI’s were fraudulent and had been ob-
tained from an acquaintance for $200. Vick-
ers and McKechnie refused to talk with law
enforcement.
All three were placed under arrest
and transported to the Citrus County De-
tention Facility. Vickers and Dethlefs were
each charged with one count of trafficking
in oxycodone, one count of conspiracy, and
3 counts of attempting to obtain controlled
substances by fraud. Their bonds were each
set at $1,015,000. McKechnie was charged with one count of attempted trafficking in oxy-
codone, one count of conspiracy, and three counts of attempting to obtain controlled sub-
stances by fraud. Her bond was set at $215,000.
While incarcerated, Vickers was arrested on additional
charges the following day (Feb. 17) for allegedly filling fraudulent
prescription written by the same South Florida physician on Feb. 4.
The prescriptions were for oxycodone 30 mg, oxycodone 15 mg and
alprazolam 2 mg. The total weight of oxycodone was 45.36 grams.
The report stated that Vickers paid cash for all of the prescriptions,
with the exception of one that his insurance paid $10.47 toward.
A supervisor with a diagnostic imaging company in Na-
ples, Florida stated that Vickers had never had been a patient, the ac-
count number on the MRI report does not exist, the imaging system
named in the mri report is not used by the company, and the patient
information format is incorrect.
When vickers was arrested on the second set of charges,
McKechnie
he declined to make a comment. He was charged with one count
of trafficking in more than 28 grams of oxycodone and three counts of obtaining controlled
substances by fraud. His total bond on this second set of charges was $515,000.
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